Abstract

The completeness of a stratigraphic section is difficult to estimate in practice because stratigraphic completeness is a measure that is based entirely in time. The suggestion that the stratigraphic completeness of a section of known timespan might be estimated by comparing that section's thickness against the global average thickness of sediment accumulated in that timespan would thus be of immense practical value if only that relationship between completeness and thickness could be demonstrated. Regrettably, there appears to be insufficient data to warrant this assertion.

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